Roughly 50 citizens and activists gathered at the corner of High School Road and Highway 305 to show support for the nearby tree sit by Bainbridge teen, Chiara D'Angelo, and in opposition of the development of a shopping center by Ohio-based developer, Visconsi.

The 4 p.m. Tuesday deadline for Chiara D’Angelo to leave her protest platform in a Douglas fir tree on the Visconsi development site came and passed without a single Bainbridge police officer at the property near Highway 305 and High School Road.

Chiara D’Angelo, the teenage activist who climbed a Douglas fir on a wooded property near Highway 305 to protest a coming shopping development, has turned down a deal from the developer to come down from her 70-foot perch and avoid prosecution.

The Port of Kingston filed an eviction lawsuit against Kingston Adventures owners Beth and Rob Brewster after the Brewsters refused to move their equipment from port property. Notices for the Brewsters to vacate port property by June 30 were not heeded, according to Kitsap County Superior Court documents.

Bainbridge Island Deputy Police Chief Jeffery Horn said the city has a plan for removing Chiara D’Angelo from the 70-foot-high platform that's been lashed to a Douglas fir at the site of a new shopping center if the teenage protester doesn't come down.

Chiara D’Angelo ended her protest against a new shopping center on Bainbridge Island from atop a Douglas fir tree Tuesday night and came down from the 70-foot-high perch that had been her home for two days.

The ferry MV Tacoma docked at Bainbridge Island with the help of two tugboats approximately two hours later than anticipated Tuesday afternoon, after losing propulsion power during the 12:20 p.m. sailing from Seattle.

Marine biotoxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) have been detected in very high levels in shellfish samples from the Liberty Bay Marina in Poulsbo, according to the Kitsap Public Health District.

Luciano Marano, Kevan Moore and Kipp Robertson are the winners of Sound Publishing Kitsap’s second-quarter editorial contest. The winning entries were published in print or posted online between April 1 and June 30.

A display of affection has marred one of the S'Klallam Tribe's most sacred sites. Late last month, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe officials learned someone had painted the message “I ♥ Miranda” in pink and white on Tamanowas Rock, the 43-million-year-old monolith used for millennia by indigenous peoples of the northern Olympic Peninsula for hunting, refuge and rituals of spiritual renewal.